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2025-03-21pds_fwctl: initial driver frameworkShannon Nelson
Initial files for adding a new fwctl driver for the AMD/Pensando PDS devices. This sets up a simple auxiliary_bus driver that registers with fwctl subsystem. It expects that a pds_core device has set up the auxiliary_device pds_core.fwctl Link: https://patch.msgid.link/r/20250320194412.67983-5-shannon.nelson@amd.com Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
2025-03-17cxl: Add FWCTL support to CXLDave Jiang
Add fwctl support code to allow sending of CXL feature commands from userspace through as ioctls via FWCTL. Provide initial setup bits. The CXL PCI probe function will call devm_cxl_setup_fwctl() after the cxl_memdev has been enumerated in order to setup FWCTL char device under the cxl_memdev like the existing memdev char device for issuing CXL raw mailbox commands from userspace via ioctls. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/r/20250307205648.1021626-2-dave.jiang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Li Ming <ming.li@zohomail.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
2025-03-06fwctl/mlx5: Support for communicating with mlx5 fwSaeed Mahameed
mlx5 FW has a built in security context called UID. Each UID has a set of permissions controlled by the kernel when it is created and every command is tagged by the kernel with a particular UID. In general commands cannot reach objects outside of their UID and commands cannot exceed their UID's permissions. These restrictions are enforced by FW. This mechanism has long been used in RDMA for the devx interface where RDMA will sent commands directly to the FW and the UID limitations restrict those commands to a ib_device/verbs security domain. For instance commands that would effect other VFs, or global device resources. The model is suitable for unprivileged userspace to operate the RDMA functionality. The UID has been extended with a "tools resources" permission which allows additional commands and sub-commands that are intended to match with the scope limitations set in FWCTL. This is an alternative design to the "command intent log" where the FW does the enforcement rather than having the FW report the enforcement the kernel should do. Consistent with the fwctl definitions the "tools resources" security context is limited to the FWCTL_RPC_CONFIGURATION, FWCTL_RPC_DEBUG_READ_ONLY, FWCTL_RPC_DEBUG_WRITE, and FWCTL_RPC_DEBUG_WRITE_FULL security scopes. Like RDMA devx, each opened fwctl file descriptor will get a unique UID associated with each file descriptor. The fwctl driver is kept simple and we reject commands that can create objects as the UID mechanism relies on the kernel to track and destroy objects prior to detroying the UID. Filtering into fwctl sub scopes is done inside the driver with a switch statement. This substantially limits what is possible to primarily query functions ad a few limited set operations. mlx5 already has a robust infrastructure for delivering RPC messages to fw. Trivially connect fwctl's RPC mechanism to mlx5_cmd_do(). Enforce the User Context ID in every RPC header accepted from the FD so the FW knows the security context of the issuing ID. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/r/7-v5-642aa0c94070+4447f-fwctl_jgg@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
2025-03-06fwctl: FWCTL_RPC to execute a Remote Procedure Call to device firmwareJason Gunthorpe
Add the FWCTL_RPC ioctl which allows a request/response RPC call to device firmware. Drivers implementing this call must follow the security guidelines under Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl.rst The core code provides some memory management helpers to get the messages copied from and back to userspace. The driver is responsible for allocating the output message memory and delivering the message to the device. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/r/5-v5-642aa0c94070+4447f-fwctl_jgg@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@amd.com> Tested-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Tested-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
2025-03-06fwctl: FWCTL_INFO to return basic information about the deviceJason Gunthorpe
Userspace will need to know some details about the fwctl interface being used to locate the correct userspace code to communicate with the kernel. Provide a simple device_type enum indicating what the kernel driver is. Allow the device to provide a device specific info struct that contains any additional information that the driver may need to provide to userspace. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/r/3-v5-642aa0c94070+4447f-fwctl_jgg@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@amd.com> Tested-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Tested-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
2025-03-06fwctl: Basic ioctl dispatch for the character deviceJason Gunthorpe
Each file descriptor gets a chunk of per-FD driver specific context that allows the driver to attach a device specific struct to. The core code takes care of the memory lifetime for this structure. The ioctl dispatch and design is based on what was built for iommufd. The ioctls have a struct which has a combined in/out behavior with a typical 'zero pad' scheme for future extension and backwards compatibility. Like iommufd some shared logic does most of the ioctl marshaling and compatibility work and table dispatches to some function pointers for each unique ioctl. This approach has proven to work quite well in the iommufd and rdma subsystems. Allocate an ioctl number space for the subsystem. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/r/2-v5-642aa0c94070+4447f-fwctl_jgg@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@amd.com> Tested-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Tested-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>